…sought to manage debt, organize credit, build capital and promote virtue. After death, he continued this work by leaving a codicil to his lastwill and testament, bequeathing Â£2,000 to Boston and Philadelphia. This study examines Franklinâ s codicil and the financial history of America over the…
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The changing practices and meanings of Catholicism in Bourbon Mexico are the subject of this study, based on research in the lastwills and testaments of the faithful of Mexico City as well as contemporary devotional literature and ecclesiastical documentation. At the beginning of the eighteenth…
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…from a sailing memoir by his oldest English friend to a dramatic adaptation of his novel Victory, and from his secretary's notebook to his lastwill and testament. Often mentioned or cited by scholars, these texts are here published in full for the first time. They also reveal Conrad speaking
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Nahuatl-speaking women and men left lastwills in their own tongue during an era when the written tradition of their language was generally assumed to have ended. Describing their world in testaments clustered around epidemic cycles, they responded to profound changes in population, land use, and…
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